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title: Divide the total by the number of parts to get one part, the smaller… — Sum and multiple: two amounts from their total a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Divide the total by the number of parts to get one part, the smaller amount; multiply to get the bigger. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Sum and multiple: two amounts from their total and «times as many»» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Sum and multiple: two amounts from their total and «times as many», sentence 1

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Divide the total by the number of parts to get one part, the smaller amount; multiply to get the bigger.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** divide, get, multiply · **To what, where:** total, one part, bigger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sum and multiple: two amounts from their total and «times as many»» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:147-sum-and-multiple.lesson:1
# text = Divide the total by the number of parts to get one part, the smaller amount; multiply to get the bigger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 147-sum-and-multiple.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Divide	divide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | imperative | you *not said here* | the total |  |  |  | by the number of parts | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent total=Theme by number=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one part |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus |
| 3 | **multiply** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | the bigger |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer big=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:lessons:147-sum-and-multiple.lesson:1`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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